Article 12 of the Saudi Social Security Law

This article deals with two practical situations that often recur:

First case: a breadwinner who has more than one family. If a breadwinner has more than one family, each family is considered independent and is entitled to an independent pension, as the Regulations specify. A family under Article 1 is a breadwinner and one or more dependents living in one dwelling, so if a man has two wives, each living with her children in a dwelling, they are two families.

This is consistent with Article 11, which bars a beneficiary other than the breadwinner from being in more than one family, with the breadwinner himself excepted.

Second case: studying outside the city. If a member of the family lives outside the city where the family lives for the purpose of study, that does not affect the family's entitlement to the pension, as the Regulations specify. The limit here is that living outside the city must be for the purpose of study, so the text does not apply to living outside the city for other reasons.

The importance of this case is that the definition of a family requires living in one dwelling, so the text prevents a student's travel to study from harming his family's entitlement.

In both cases the article refers to the Implementing Regulations to set the rules, so the text does not state how study is proved or how each family's pension is calculated.